Last Saturday- Santa Clara Day

We had a very busy but joyful day last Saturday, and since all of our activities were in Santa Clara, so I declared 11/15/08 as "Santa Clara Day".

Stephen 's company has a movie day about every 6 months or so, and the winner of the movie day can get up to 4 free movie tickets and $15 AMC snacks gift card. The company selected the movie and day and time, and it usually is the movie that kids love to watch.

Last time, the first 100 employees who replied the movie day invitation were the winners, and Stephen won, too. However, Ha and Hee were too scared to watch the whole movie ( it was their first movie experience, and they were scared of the sound effect and huge screen), so we only watched that movie for 10 minutes, and then, we went out.

This time, the winners were picked up through a lottery, and Stephen won again. This time, the movie was Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and we decided to try again in order to help them to have more courage. As long as we can stay longer than 10 minutes in the theater, we are making the progress. How were we doing? This time, we stayed one hour. Since we had another party to go to , we chose to leave early. However, Hee was still not so interested in watching the movie. His hands covered his ears, and he sat on my lap throughout the movie. When he wanted to eat popcorn or gummy or have a drink, I needed to put them in his mouth because his hand needed to cover his ears. He told us that he wanted to go every 10 minutes, but since he was still calm, we didn't go. Ha was much better this time than last time. He acted normal and ate a lot of popcorn although he told me that he felt a little tired of watching the movie after we went out.

Our second activity was more excited to them because we went to Rebecca's birthday party. There were a lot of yummy food and a yummy cake, and kids enjoyed playing together. They ran up and down the stairs, playing in the bedroom and living room, and by the time that we were about to leave, their hairs were all wet.

We stayed at the friends' house till almost 4pm. We came home, took a little break, ate an easy dinner and then we went to Santa Clara again for the Stream of Praise worship concert. There were a lot of people there. Kids loved to come, too, and Ha asked us to buy a CD before we left. In the car, he told me that Dolphin and he had a great time. We had a great time to worship the Lord through the songs, too.